Bahraini People Continue Protest Rallies against Court Ruling for Execution of 6 Activists

Rasa - The Bahraini people continued protest rallies in different parts of the country against a court ruling to execute 6 young people.

News ID: 435577

Date: 31 December 2017 - 22:19

RNA - Protests against the al-Khalifa regime still continue, Saut al-Manama reported, adding that people chanted slogans which called for an end to the al-Khalifa rule over the country.

Reports said earlier this week that Bahraini regime forces attacked citizens protesting death penalty verdict handed by a military court to six civilians.

Bahraini troops used teargas to suppress a demonstration which was held in the village of Diraz by mostly female protesters last Monday.

Bahraini scholars also railed against the ruling which they describe as legally and ethically unjust.

Bahrain's top military court sentenced six individuals to death on Monday after convicting them over charges including plotting to assassinate the Persian Gulf state's armed forces chief.

The court also sentenced seven other people linked to the case to seven-year jail terms and deprived them too of their citizenship, while five men were acquitted.

Ten of the alleged defendants appeared in the court, while, authorities claimed, eight are at large in Bahrain or abroad, while it was not clear which of the absent eight were sentenced to death and which to jail.

It was the first official mention of any plot against the life of Field Marshal Sheikh Khalifa bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa, who is a member of the ruling family, but the Bahrain News Agency gave no further details of when or where it was alleged to have taken place.

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